[ixs]

If the person on the phone had said “Capone, Al” instead of “Uh…” he’d possibly not gone to jail.

Even ill gotten gains are taxable and the theory of one crime at a time suggests that even “other, unspecified” could be with paying taxes on to reduce the likelyhood of successful criminal persecution.

[lazide]

They’d have nailed him with something else - it just might not have been so easy.

That said, pay your taxes even if you’re a criminal for sure!